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Help Ed's recovery and costs involved💜

Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui

Ed has been with me since the day he was born. He has helped me through spinal Injury & serious spinal surgery. He is, as a good friend put it my therapy kitty, and my baby. He means so much to me so tonight has been pretty scary and emotional.

Tonight he had to be rushed to After hrs vet at Massey in alot of pain. Turns out he has a blocked urinary tract and now has surgery and overnight stay to get sorted.

They have told me it so far could cost $1200-1500 depending how it goes. Let alone if he needs to stay longer.

I'm now off work at the moment till January as we can't stocktake during the crazy silly season and since my contract is under casual I don't get holiday pay. So as a person that hates asking for help this is a huge thing for me to do.

All help will mean so much to cover Ed's vet costs and any follow up he may need.

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Ed the cats Veterinary costs & follow up.

Tuesday 8th Evening update. 8 November 2022

So we headed into our regular vet this afternoon after my concerns this morning which were totally valid. As I was worried I was over thinking but nope Ed wasnt 100%.

The vet checked him over and his bladder wasn't full so that explains no pee when he was trying this morning. She suspects his bladder was spasming which is why he kept wanting to pee and nothing was coming as his bladder was empty. She suggested giving him fluids to help flush his bladder as he could develop a UTI so we did that and he had a pain med injection.

He had slightly raised temp but she wasn't sure if that was due to stress of coming in or not. I've got to keep an eye on him and if he looks like he's still not improving we will be back in tomorrow morn and they will pop an iv in and try get a pee sample lol.

She decided to add a new pain relief to his medication that he can have twice a day (morning & night) which should help his discomfort. He's going to stay on his anti-inflammatory medication a bit longer as we got a new bottle of that + his new pain meds for next couple of days.

He took his dinner time meds without much fuss although I do have a claw mark lol (he's not fussed on the pill one he gets before the liquid anti-inflammatory) and was pretty good about his new one tonight at 11pm.

So far he's peed tonight and stunk me out of the lounge 🤣 the other upside to today, he quite likes his new special urinary care biscuits he's on which is excellent.

So today was another expensive afternoon but hopefully he keeps improving!

Thanks everyone for your love & Support this past week, it means so much! Especially my Twitter pocket pals 💜💜

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